Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2
How to create standard text ......................................................................................................................... 2
How to move standard text from one client to the other ............................................................................ 3
How to transport standard text using a transport request .......................................................................... 3
Create a new transport request ................................................................................................................ 3
Attach standard texts to that transport request ...................................................................................... 5
How to read standard text in your program ................................................................................................. 9



Introduction
It is often request by business to print certain text in most of outputs such as order confirmation,
invoice, etc. Eg: legal text, Information about upcoming promotions, etc.
In order to facilitate such a requirement, we can use the standard text functionality in SAP.
How to create standard text
Transaction: SO10
Enter a Text Name. Make sure the Text ID is set to ST

If you want to maintain text is various different languages, maintain the language as well.
Press
Maintain the text that you want to appear in the output

Save

How to move standard text from one client to the other
In order to move these standard texts from one client to the other, we can use below 2 methods
Create same standard text in every client using transaction SO10
Create the required standard text in the development client and move it using a transport
request
How to transport standard text using a transport request
In this method, you have to first create a transport request and then attach all relevant standard texts to
that request.
Create a new transport request
First you need to create a new transport request using transaction SE09
Click on button

Select the option Workbench request

Enter the transport request description and the package to create the transport request

You will notice that the sub transport is now appear as Unclassified

Now you need to change this transport request from Unclassified to Correction/Repair. For
that select the sub transport number and click on Request/Task on main menu -> Change
Type

Select the option Development / Correction and press Enter key

Now you can see that your sub task if from Unclassified the request type changed to
Development/Correction.

Attach standard texts to that transport request

Now you need to attach your standard texts in to that transport request
Go to transaction SE38
Enter the program RSTXTRAN and execute
Enter the sub transport number under field Name of Correction and execute.
In my above example it is IDSK901004

In the next screen, you will see all text objects that appear with select status

Use button deselect them and only mark the standard texts that you want to move

Press Enter key
Your selected objects will appear as shown below

Click on button
Select Yes from the below popup

Now you will see below section appear under your transport number



How to read standard text in your program

Ask the ABAP developer to use the function module READ_TEXT to read the standard text that you
have created. Refer below on how to test the above function module
Call transaction SE37
Enter function module as READ_TEXT
Click on

Fill below and press . Under Name, you need to maintain your standard text created

You can see the results as below



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